Fragment of Dish
Fragment of Dish
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy, most likely Rome
DateSecond to mid-first century BCE
DimensionsOriginal Diam: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
MediumAssembled from sections, segments, and lengths of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; possibly fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; tooling marks on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.427
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of rim and side of broad, shallow dish. Outsplayed rim and side with thick, downturned edge. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of five canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral around a central blue-green rod; the second in a blue-green ground with an opaque yellow spiral (appearing green) around a central purple rod; the third, all rectangular lengths, in a purple ground with two parallel opaque white lines; the fourth, all squarish segments, in an opaque white ground backed by colorless, visible only on the interior; and the fifth, all squarish segments, in an opaque yellow ground backed by colorless, visible only on the interior. A wide purple network cane wound spirally with an opaque white thread is attached as a rim.
Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of five canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral around a central blue-green rod; the second in a blue-green ground with an opaq
DESCRIPTION Fragment of rim and side of broad, shallow dish. Outsplayed rim and side with thick, downturned edge.
TECHNIQUE Assembled from sections, segments, and lengths of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; possibly fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; tooling marks on the exterior.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 207, p. 203, repr. (col.) p. 181 (int.).Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to 1st century BCE
1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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